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Monday, August 10, 2009

The Basics of the Forex Market: It All Starts Here

By Britt Mcbride

Almost two trillion dollars is traded daily on the Foreign Exchange Market and is the preferred trading of choice amongst investors.

What is the difference between the Foreign Market and the Stock Market you ask? If you are trading within the stock market, you are trading within your own country.

Our stock market in the United States has set hours of trading and is limited to trading within your own country and currency. The FX market is global which means you can trade with several countries and currencies.

Trading in the stock market limits you to your own country and currency, whereas forex trades are global, meaning selling and trading with many other countries and currencies.

Traders in the FX market look for patterns and trends, or market signals to determine whether the system will make profits, or lose profits.

Experts suggest that a trader must learn to be disciplined and not let their emotions get the best of them in order to ride out the long term and make the profits they hoped for.

Market signals come from charts that have a mathematical formula tied to the prices and times within the trades.

Timing is everything in the forex market and the trader must trade with patience, whether it is traded short term or long term.

A good trader will observe and use one-minute or sixty-minute charts carefully, which are updated constantly, and are a major trading signal for them.

If you would like to try your hand in the foreign exchange market, you will want to observe all the market signals and patterns and trends so you can make the best trading decision and the most profits in this lucrative system. - 23208

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A Guide To The Stochastic Oscillator For Maximum Profits

By Sam Nielson

The Stochastic oscillator is meant to girate between 100 and 0. A very low level means emotions have caused people to sell in panic. A very high level means emotions have caused people to become too greedy.

When the Stochastic oscillator is low, look to capitalize on peoples fears by buying. When the Stochastic oscillator is high, look to capitalize on peoples greed by selling. Buying when the Stochastic is low is emotionally challenging because you will be afraid to buy the terrible looking chart. Conversely, selling when the Stochastic is high is emotionally challenging because the market will look great and you'll feel greedy, like you could make even more money.

The Stochastic indicator should not be used by itself but rather with other technical indicators. When a strong uptrend starts, the Stochastic indicator quickly becomes overbought and starts flashing sell signals. In a sudden sell off, the Stochastic indicator becomes oversold and flashes premature buy signals. This indicator works well only if you use it with another trend-following indicator and take only those Stochastic signals that point in the direction of the main trend.

Should a trader wait for the Stochastic indicator to turn up to recognize a buy signal? Should he wait for it to turn down to recognize a sell signal? Not really, because by the time the Stochastic indicator turns, a new move is usually under way. If you are looking for an opportunity to enter, as soon as the Stochastic indicator reaches an extreme you enter.

If the Stochastic has a bullish divergence from the price, go long. If it has a bearish divergence from the price, go short. Bullish and bearish divergences are just a short way of saying that the Stochastic moves in the opposite direction as the price of the stock.

Perhaps the most helpful use of the Stochastic is in that it tells you when you should NOT buy. Do not buy when the Stochastic is high. Do not short when the it is low. Moving averages are better than Stochastics at spotting trends, the MACD is better at spotting reversals. But the Stochastic is the king at telling you when you should not trade. - 23208

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Foreclosures In California: Do They Affect You?

By Pamela McGee

If you live in California, you may be worried about your home - or you may be interested in homes about to become available. Foreclosures in California are taking place more and more often, and some people benefit from them, while others are badly hurt. Whatever position you're in, it's good to prepare yourself.

There are many reasons a home owner wouldn't be able to make one monthly payment on their mortgage. While this would put things into a state of default, it certainly wouldn't trigger an immediate foreclosure. However, it is the first time things might start to go badly.

Things really become a problem if the home owner continues to miss payments. Three or four times later, a record of notice of default is written. This will be kept around for up to ten days, at which point it will be sent to the home, letting the people who live there know things are getting serious.

You will still be able to intervene, though. In fact, you'll probably be given several months in which to pay back what you owe. In special circumstances, you might well even be allowed to work out a loan in addition to the back payments. You'll often find a way out of the situation.

Unfortunately, though, sometimes there's nothing to be done. This is the point where the foreclosure becomes official. The notice is sent out and things go on hold for a bit while all other necessary parties are contacted. Usually, though, homes go on sale about twenty-five days after the IRS is contacted.

Five days before that sale is the last chance the owners have to make a bid for their residence. You should keep this in mind in case you have your eye on a home that is about to go on sale. Take a look at what's available, and look into public auctions, where these homes are available. - 23208

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Updated Algorithm For Successful Investing At Black Horse Fund

By Robert Miller

Forex investment requires a combination of technical and fundamental analysis in order to trade knowledgeably. Successful Forex investors stay ahead of the curve by not only watching their stocks but also by watching their data collection methods.

Most companies will make minor modifications to their algorithm from time to time, and Black Horse Fund is no different. However, this private forex fund just made a significant improvement to its algorithm that is already delivering clearer insight for its traders.

Black Horse Fund is a limited partnership that pools partner money to invest in specific currencies in the huge and highly liquid foreign exchange ("forex") currency market. Their investors are made up of just a small handful of investors, combining the buying power of a group and the agility that comes with keeping that group small.

When investors use fundamental analysis to make trading decisions, they are deriving insight from new reports and macro and micro economic data to help them understand the health and potential movement of a particular currency.

Technical analysis is the other major type of analysis that investors use to help them know how to trade. Technical analysis examines current market movement " including price and trends " to inform traders and help them anticipate the direction that currencies are likely to go. This is where Black Horse Fund's algorithm comes into play.

The algorithm Black Horse uses has been an important part of their technical analysis right from the very beginning. But any member of the Black Horse Fund team will tell you: Creating the algorithm was just one step. Maintaining, upgrading, and enhancing it is a commitment to an ongoing improvement, all for the pursuit of greater gains.

With success comes popularity and Black Horse Fund's limited partnership has filled up quickly. They have locked the number of partners and are only accepting a couple more partners before the Fund will be completely full and all new applications will be automatically rejected. - 23208

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Understand Technical Analysis Terminology

By Ahmad Hassam

As a currency trader, you need to understand the various terms that are frequently used in Technical Analysis. By definition, Technical Analysis is the study of historical and ongoing price data through charts, price patterns and chart indicators. Charts display price action in time intervals using bars and candlesticks.

Technical Analysis is based on the following assumptions. 1) All available information is already impounded in the market prices of the securities. 2) Prices always move in trends or patterns. 3) History repeats itself meaning you can predict the future market by studying the past market prices.

Studies have shown that once a trend is in motion, it is most likely to continue rather than reverse it. The more one studies chart patterns in technical analysis, the clearer it becomes that reading and interpreting chart patterns and technical analysis are more an art form than a skill.

Charts come in two types: Bar and Candlesticks. Bar charts display price data in vertical lines which represents price action during a given time period. The tip at the top is the high for the period and the tip at the bottom is the low for the period. The open and close are represented by small horizontal dashes called tics. The tic to the left of the line is the open and the tic to the right of the line is the close.

Candlestick charts are similar to bar charts in that the top of the vertical line represent the high and the bottom of the vertical line represents the low. However, the market activity between the open and the close is represented differently by the use of candlestick bodies. A hollow body represents a higher closing above a lower opening. A shaded body represents a lower closing below a higher opening.

The price action above and below the body is referred to as tails or wicks. A forex day trader may use any one of the 3, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60 and 180 minutes charts. A swing and position trader may use a daily, weekly or a monthly chart while doing technical analysis. These charts all use the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or the Eastern Standard Time (EST) depending on the software that your broker platform uses. But you can always adjust these times according to your local time.

While doing technical analysis, you need to understand markets patterns? You need to understand what are Uptrends? You should also know what downtrends are and what are sideway trends? Forex markets expand and retrace constantly. Currency prices may continue to expand for sometimes either upward or downward. It is the nature of the currency markets to surge then pause and retrace.

Trends make a series of peaks and troughs as they move. An uptrend consists of a series of ascending peaks and troughs. A downtrend consists of a series of descending peaks and troughs. A sidways trend consists of a series of horizontal peaks and troughs. - 23208

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